A collection of photography and exploration focusing on Upstate South Carolina and beyond.
Saturday Laura and I headed downtown for the 15th Annual Art in the Park. The festival originally started at as a display by a few local artists in Cleveland Park. It has since migrated to the Falls Park area, with most of the artists booths actually on South Main Street rather than in the park … Read More “Art in the Park” »
Back when I got my first digital camera, my thoughts were that it would only really be used for web images. If I wanted something of higher quality, I would use my 35mm SLR. After all, I could always scan the photos and get really high quality digital images. This last little project with … Read More “Paradigm Shift” »
Despite its flaws, I’ve had a blast with the new Flickr Maps over the past several days. Seeing my travels laid out so neatly has prompted me to go back into my older photo archives and upload some of those images. There were quite a few digital images, but most were taken with a … Read More “Time Passages” »
It was as I suspected. The new Flickr Maps application does not use EXIF data, but some proprietary format. If there is existing EXIF or GPS data for an image, Flickr can import it, but other than import it doesn’t use that data. This means that if an image is geotagged using Flickr’s handy map … Read More “More on Flickr Maps” »
From this morning’s obituaries in the Greenville News… Shular "Tom" Dee Burrell Charles "Louie" Homer Carlton Katherine "Kay" Mellom Gladys Inez "Nan" Parkins Willie "Pie Face" Priestly I can understand wanting to include the dearly departed’s nickname in the obituary. After all, the idea is to remember them as they were known in life. Tom, … Read More “Obituary Nicknames” »
Flickr has added a new mapping application to its list of imaging services. Since Flickr is a Yahoo company it uses the new Yahoo maps. Google may have an advantage over Yahoo with more accurate maps and integration with Google Earth. However Flickr does have a slick new interface and a cool map page for … Read More “Flickr Maps” »
Exactly 40 years ago tonight Star Trek debuted on NBC with the episode "The Man Trap." TV Land aired that episode this evening, along with four others. The episodes for the first series were filmed, but were not aired sequentially. Some episodes that aired later in the year actually had elements that pre-dated "The Man … Read More “Star Trek 40th Anniversary” »
I’ve heard the phrase in at least five different television commercials, from Taco Bell to Quaker Oats. "Good to go" receives my nomination for most overvused phrase of 2006.
Nevermind that Karen Floyd, Republican candidate for Superintendent of Education, advocates a vouchers system in the guise of "school choice." Nevermind that Floyd receives tremendous support from right-wing groups outside of our state that want to undermine public education. This one item alone should make any intelligent person run as far away from her as … Read More “Karen Floyd – Dove Hater” »
Sunday afternoon Amy, Laura, and I decided to go to the Upper State SC Fair. It was an odd decision, but we figured it would be fun and different, and I would be able to get some interesting photographs. While it was all those things, it was also different from what I had expected, and … Read More “Upper State Fair” »